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Thursday, August 16, 2018

COLORADO DEFIES U.S. SUPREME COURT~JACK PHILLIPS, BAKER, BACK IN COURT AFTER COLORADO CLAIMS HE DISCRIMINATED BY DECLINING TO MAKE CAKE CELEBRATING "GENDER TRANSITION"

Colorado Defies Supreme Court Ruling, Punishing Christian Baker Jack Phillips Over Transgender Cake

SEE ALSO: https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/29798-christian-baker-sued-again?vsmaid=610&vcid=3987;
EXCERPT: "The trouble began when attorney Autumn Scardina called Phillips’ Masterpiece Cakeshop and asked for cake with a pink interior and blue exterior. It would mark the day, he said, he became a woman. While a pink and blue cake might sound revolting to some, that isn’t why Phillips refused to bake it. Phillips would not, he said, support Scardina’s “transgender” ideology. Claiming discrimination, Scardina complained to Colorado’s civil rights enforcers, who gave him what he wanted."
Autumn-Scardina
JACK PHILLIPS, BAKER, BACK IN COURT AFTER COLORADO CLAIMS HE DISCRIMINATED BY DECLINING TO MAKE CAKE CELEBRATING "GENDER TRANSITION"
BY HEATHER CLARK
LAKEWOOD, Co. — The baker in Colorado whose case involving his refusal to make a cake for a same-sex “wedding” celebration is back in court after the Colorado Civil Rights Division has approved another man’s discrimination complaint against him, this time for declining to create a pink and blue cake to celebrate a “gender transition.”
Attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) have filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop, contending that the Division has “doubled down” in its religious hostility toward the Christian baker.
“It is now clear that Colorado will not rest until Phillips either closes Masterpiece Cakeshop or agrees to violate his religious beliefs,” he legal challenge reads. “The state’s continuing efforts to target Phillips do not just violate the Constitution; they cross the line into bad faith. This court should put a stop to Colorado’s unconstitutional bullying.”
According to the determination letter submitted to Phillips in late June, last year, a man who identifies as a woman called Masterpiece Cakeshop and stated that he wanted to place an order for a custom cake. Debi Phillips, the wife of Jack Phillips, took the call and asked the man about the desired size of the cake, the requested flavors, and the date by which it would be needed.
“The complainant responded that [he] would need the cake … to serve 6-8 people, and wanted the cake to have a blue exterior and a pink interior,” the letter reads. “The complainant asserts that [he] ‘explained that the design was a reflection of the fact that [he] transitioned from male to female and that [he] had come out as transgender on [his] birthday.'”
Realizing that the order would entail the creation of a custom cake reflecting the celebration of a so-called gender transition, Phillips advised that the business could not be of assistance. Her husband affirmed that the request could not be fulfilled.
“[T]he respondent will not make cakes that address the topic of sex changes or gender transitions,” the determination letter outlines. “He contends that he will not support a message that ‘promotes the idea that a person’s sex is anything other than an immutable God-given biological reality.'”
The document states that Phillips doesn’t make custom cakes for any expression that is objectionable.
The Colorado Civil Rights Division consequently concluded that the complainant had standing for a claim of unlawful discrimination.
“The evidence thus demonstrates that the refusal to provide service to the complainant was based on the complainant’s transgender status,” the letter reads. “A claim of discriminatory denial of full and equal enjoyment of a place of public accommodation has been established.”
However, Phillips and his attorneys state that the Division is wrong to continue to attempt to require Phillips to make cakes that convey messages that conflict with his Christian values.
“Phillips declined to create the cake with the blue and pink design because it would have celebrated messages contrary to his religious belief that sex—the status of being male or female—is given by God, is biologically determined, is not determined by perceptions or feelings, and cannot be chosen or changed,” the lawsuit reads.
It notes that the Division contrarily found that other bakeries committed no wrongdoing when a man named William Jack recently asked for the creation of a custom cake that included a design expressing objection to same-sex “marriage.”
“The Division made these determinations because the requested cakes included ‘wording and images [that the cake shop] deemed derogatory,'” the suit outlines. “The Division also made these determinations because the cake shops would not create cakes expressing the same message for any other customer.”
Similarly, Phillips won’t make custom cakes for any customer if the message is problematic. He has turned down cake orders demeaning homosexuals, and similarly refused an order celebrating a divorce. He will also not make cakes that would be racist, use profanity, promote drugs or alcohol, support abortion or euthanasia, or celebrate Satanism or Halloween.
“Phillips’s decisions on whether to create a custom cake do not focus on who the customer is, but instead depend on what the custom cake will express or celebrate,” the lawsuit explains. “Neither Phillips nor any staff member at Masterpiece Cakeshop asks customers about their protected characteristics, such as their race, faith, sexual orientation, or gender identity, because those characteristics do not matter to Phillips in deciding whether to accept a custom-cake order.”
“Phillips will not create such cakes no matter who requests them,” it notes. “Phillips believes that he would violate God’s commands if he were to create custom cakes that express messages or celebrate events in conflict with his religious beliefs.”
ADF is seeking both a declaratory judgment and an injunction preventing the Colorado Civil Rights Division from attempting to force Phillips to act contrary to his faith by using the law against him.
“Even though Jack serves all customers and simply declines to create custom cakes that express messages or celebrate events in violation of his deeply held beliefs, the government is intent on destroying him—something the Supreme Court has already told it not to do,” said Senior Vice President of U.S. Legal Division Kristen Waggoner in a statement. “Neither Jack nor any other creative professionals should be targeted by the government for living consistently with their religious beliefs.”

GRAND JURY REPORT: MORE THAN 300 "PREDATOR PRIESTS" IN PENNSYLVANIA

GRAND JURY REPORT: MORE THAN 300 "PREDATOR PRIESTS" IN PENNSYLVANIA 
SEE: https://christiannews.net/2018/08/15/grand-jury-report-more-than-300-predator-priests-in-pennsylvania/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes FROM:
(Washington Post)  More than 300 Catholic priests across Pennsylvania sexually abused children over seven decades, protected by a hierarchy of church leaders who covered it up, according to a sweeping grand jury report released Tuesday.
The investigation, one of the broadest inquiries into church sex abuse in U.S. history, identified 1,000 children who were victims, but reported that there probably are thousands more.
“Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing; they hid it all. For decades,” the grand jury wrote in its report.
The 18-month investigation covered six of the state’s dioceses — Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton — and follows other state grand jury reports that revealed abuse and coverups in two other dioceses. The grand jury reviewed more than 2 million documents, including from the “secret archives” — what church leaders referred to the reports of abuse they hid from public for decades, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro said at a news conference Tuesday.

GULFTAINER HAS TERRORIST CONNECTIONS~OUR NATIONAL SECURITY IS BEING COMPROMISED IN DELAWARE, FLORIDA & OTHER CONTAINER PORTS

GULFTAINER
OUR NATIONAL SECURITY IS BEING COMPROMISED 

What the President must do on an expedited basis is cancel both the Port Canaveral and Wilmington deals.  Prevent Gulftainer from conducting any further port activity in the U.S.

SEE: https://canadafreepress.com/article/our-national-security-is-being-compromisedrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Nearly two years after the election of Donald Trump as president, America is still suffering the consequences of the deterioration of our national security under former President Barack Obama.  In a 10 August, 2018 article by Mary Fanning and Alan Jones, they have provided information on Obama’s billionaire Iraqi patron Nadhmi Shakir Auchi, who is now 80 and lives in London.  Auchi is being sued for $4 billion for providing chemical weapons used in the Halabja Massacre which occurred on March 16, 1988.  On that day, Saddam Hussein’s regime used those chemical weapons to kill over 5,000 Kurdish Arabian and wounded another 10,000 in Halabja, Kurdistan. The Iraqi High Criminal Court ruled it an act of genocide in 2010. Nadhmi Auchi is connected to Barack Obama through their mutual long term association with Syrian-American and convicted felon Antoin “Tony” Rezko. Auchi wired $3.5 million in 2005 to the then financially strapped Rezko in Chicago less than a month before Obama bought his mansion with the help of Rezko.  Such a coincidence!

Gulftainer and Rostec, a Russian state-owned defense industry conglomerate.  Rostec produces components of the Club-K container missile system

The State Department has declared Auchi an undesirable alien and he is barred from entering the United States.  Also, named as a defendant in the lawsuit is Lt. General Dr. Amir al Sa’adi.   This is important in connecting the dots because Lt. General Sa’adi was also named in U.S. Congressional records as a co-conspirator with Hamid Dhiya Jafar, Chairman of Crescent Petroleum and co-owner of the port and container management company “Gulftainer” in a scheme known as “Oil-For-Superweapons.”  In that scheme they plotted to sell Iraqi oil to fund Saddam Hussein’s and Hamid’s brother, Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar’s, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program.
Dr. Jafar is considered the father of Iraq ’s nuclear weapons program and the developer of the nuclear miniaturized “Beach Ball” warhead.  He was deeply involved in managing Iraq’s chemical weapons program as well.  To continue connecting the dots, in 2014, the Obama administration facilitated and approved a deal that awarded Gulftainer, co-owned by Hamid and his brother, Dr. Jafar, a 35-year cargo container terminal lease at Port Canaveral, Florida, known as Project Pelican, in a single day secretly negotiated deal with no security review.  The container port is 1,000 feet from the US Navy’s strategic Trident submarine base and within sight of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.  Previously, the Obama administration had refused a request from Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) to conduct a Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) national security threat analysis of the Gulftainer port deal.  Hunter obviously knew of the relationship between Gulftainer and Rostec, a Russian state-owned defense industry conglomerate.  Rostec produces components of the Club-K container missile system and exports complete Club-K systems through its wholly owned subsidiary Rosoboronexport.  Club-K is referred to as a Trojan horse because it cannot be distinguished from a normal commercial container.  To complicate matters, it can be activated by satellite.  We must assume it has been sold to our potential enemies.  How many have been pre-positioned in the U.S. is an unknown. 

Gulftainer is in the process of finalizing a 50-year lease for the Port of Wilmington

Currently, Gulftainer is in the process of finalizing a 50-year lease for the Port of Wilmington, Delaware following the Obama administration having awarded an infrastructure grant to the ports.  How convenient!  Further, a Treasury Department official who previously oversaw Iranian sanctions for the Obama administration approved the Wilmington port deal without conducting a National Security Threat Analysis.
In an astounding statement that President Trump has no authority over national security as it relates to our ports, The News Journal of Wilmington wrote on 28 June, “Earlier this week, Thomas P. Feddo, deputy assistant Secretary of Investment Security for the Department of Treasury, informed an attorney representing the state that the Gulftainer port of Wilmington deal is not covered under the Defense Protection Act.  That act gives the President authority to review certain transactions involving foreign entities.”  It should be noted that Feddo’s job at Treasury was previously held by Amir Mir, a Pakistani-American, and a former two-time president of the youth wing of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), of which Mir’s father is a Founder Committee Member.  ISNA was named as a co-conspirator in the Hamas terrorist funding trial in Dallas in 2008.  Mir joined Treasury in 2009 and was Obama’s CFIUS staff chairman during both the Gulftainer Port Canaveral and Uranium One deals, bypassing the required National Security Threat Analysis.
Gulftainer is now trying to obtain a similar lease on the port of Jacksonville, Florida, where previously they attempted to buy their way in with a $250 million investment.  The question must be raised as to how these clearly questionable deals are consummated with known international figures of dubious character, which affect our national security.  Why would our American leadership approve such deals? 

President must take the lead in purging the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as all of Obama’s holdovers, from all our government agencies

The fact of the matter is that we have many people who have infiltrated our government agencies who have an agenda that is not in the best interest of the United States.  We know the Muslim Brotherhood has penetrated many of our national security and intelligence agencies.  We have questionable agents seeded by John Brennan when he was CIA director.  We also have seen that we had high government officials in the White House, FBI, CIA and NSA who do not support our President.  A prime example is highlighted by Diana West in her 19 April, 2018 article where she cites 17 examples of Robert Mueller’s apparent shocking obstruction efforts or failure to pursue known leads.  This includes his allegedly hiding from Congress evidence the FBI had collected when he was the Director showing that Russian officials were engaged in a bribery scheme aimed at expanding their nuclear energy business inside the U.S.  Had he provided the known information, it most certainly would have killed the Uranium One deal, and the Clinton Foundation would have likely been out more than a hundred million dollars. 
What the President must do on an expedited basis is cancel both the Port Canaveral and Wilmington deals.  Prevent Gulftainer from conducting any further port activity in the U.S.  Next, the President must take the lead in purging the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as all of Obama’s holdovers, from all our government agencies.  Time is not on our side.   Our national security must be our first priority.
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THE SELLING OF AMERICA'S CONTAINER PORTS TO OUR ENEMIES~TREASON AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT LEAVES US AT RISK OF NUCLEAR ATTACK, ETC.

OBAMA, MUELLER COLLUSION WITH ISLAMIC TERRORIST ENTITIES TO ALLOW GULFTAINER TO LEASE OUR STATEGIC PORTS WITHOUT "CFIUS" FEDERAL REVIEW


TRUMP REVOKES EX-CIA CHIEF BRENNAN’S SECURITY CLEARANCE~PARTISAN SWAMP CREATURE CAN NO LONGER LEVERAGE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION, SAYS WHITE HOUSE

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders reads a statement from President Trump, which cites former CIA Director John Brennan's 'erratic conduct and behavior.'
SEE OUR PREVIOUS POSTS ABOUT BRENNAN:
TRUMP REVOKES EX-CIA CHIEF BRENNAN’S SECURITY CLEARANCE~PARTISAN SWAMP CREATURE CAN NO LONGER LEVERAGE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION, 
SAYS WHITE HOUSE 
BY JAMIE WHITE
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/trump-revokes-ex-cia-chief-brennans-security-clearance/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
The Trump administration has revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, according to a statement from the president.
“As the head of the Executive Branch and Commander-in-Chief, I have a unique constitutional responsibility to protect the nation’s classified information, including by controlling access to it. Today, in fulfilling that responsibility, I’ve decided to revoke the security clearance of John Brennan, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said reading Trump’s statement.
“Historically, former heads of intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been allowed to retain access to classified information after their government service so that they can consult with their successors regarding matters about which they may have special insights and as a professional courtesy. Neither of these justifications supports Mr. Brennan’s continued access to classified information.”
“First, at this point in my administration, any benefits that senior officials might glean from consultations from Mr. Brennan are now outweighed by the risks posed by his erratic conduct and behavior,” Sanders continued.
“Second, that conduct and behavior has tested and far exceeded the limits of any professional courtesy that may have been due to him. Mr. Brennan has a history that calls into question his objectivity and credibility.”
As one example, Trump’s statement referred to when Brennan lied in 2014 about the CIA spying on Congress.
Additionally, Sanders pointed out Brennan also lied to Congress under oath last year, claiming the intelligence community did not utilize the infamous Steele Dossier to secure FISA warrants in the surveillance of Trump campaign officials in 2016.
Sanders also said Brennan’s “unfounded and outrageous allegations” and “wild outbursts” about Trump disqualifies him from retaining access to classified information which he “leverages” on MSNBC, where he now works as a commentator.
Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots: Where are you???
The announcement comes the day after Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani warned Brennan may face a grand jury for “quarterbacking” the phony Russia investigation.
“The guy running it is Brennan. And he should be in front of a grand jury,” Giuliani said on Hannity.
“Unless he’s the biggest idiot intelligence agent that ever existed—although he never really did much intelligence work—it’s false. You could look at it [the dossier] and laugh at it.”
Senator Rand Paul praised Trump’s decision Wednesday on Twitter.
“I applaud President Trump for his revoking of John Brennan’s security clearance. I urged the President to do this,” Paul said.
Brennan later responded on Twitter, claiming the revoking of his clearance is meant to “suppress” his “freedom of speech.”
“This action is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to suppress freedom of speech & punish critics. It should gravely worry all Americans, including intelligence professionals, about the cost of speaking out. My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent,” he tweeted.
This action is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to suppress freedom of speech & punish critics. It should gravely worry all Americans, including intelligence professionals, about the cost of speaking out. My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent.
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